Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.

Researchers have created a detailed map of chemical modifications to DNA that occur in the human brain from the earliest ...

Edited by Lora Hooper, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX; received March 18, 2025; accepted August 4, 2025 ...

The 55th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research has been awarded to professor Steven ...

Cells contain a blueprint in the form of DNA that dictates what they can make. This blueprint is converted into a message ...

Collaborating researchers have made a breakthrough discovery regarding the intricate defense systems of bacteriophages (phages)—viruses that can specifically target harmful bacteria without harming ...

Arc Institute, Gladstone Institutes, and University of California, San Francisco, scientists have developed an epigenetic editing platform that enables safe modification of multiple genes in primary ...

DNA from a smoothie straw, prosecutors say, could now be the key piece of evidence they need to convict her killer. Theresa Fusco went missing November 10, 1984. She was last seen late that night ...

1 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA, United States 2 The Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University ...

At only 16 years old Esaul Rodriguez came to the United States from Mexico in 1986 undocumented with no money and plans to work for two years, save and return to Mexico. But then he fell in love with ...